Try being Asian in a country where "gook" "Jap" "Chink" etc are considered perfectly acceptable and if you complain, you're "being too PC."

Remember Bill Parcells talking about plays where the ball one time tries to "sneak" the ball past the line of scrimmage and Parcells said to all the reporters there, "We call them 'Jap plays'--no offense to any Oriental people." Did he lose his job? No. Was he castigated all over the sports pages? No. Did anybody even understand that Parcells' statement equated being a "Jap" with being "sneaky"? No.

Imagine him talking about plays where one team "steals" the ball from the other team and says, "We call them 'nigger plays'--no offense to any colored people." We all know what would have happened.

Not long ago, I was watching some trailer for some WW2 movie with Nicholas Cage and they choose to run him speaking only one line and this was the line: "Killin Japs is the only thing I'm good at." Imagine being white in a predominantly non-white country and you're watching tv and you and your family are greeting by a commercial where a non-white man says, "Killin whites is the only thing I'm good at." I'm not pissed about Cage, he was reciting a line in a WW2 movie, I understand that--it's that this was the only line the commerical used to advertise movie.

Imagine watching a German commercial and a guy says, "Killin kikes is the only thing I'm good at" as a way to get people to watch the show.

At least blacks and Jews have some amount of redress when epithets are spoken about them in public. Asian-American have none. Christ, two white guys once beat a Chinese-American man to death here in Detroit and used the excuse that they thought he was Japanese and netiher went to prison--not for a single day. The judge said, "These are not the kind of men you send to prison." Cold-blooded murderers?? Sure, when they're white and the victim was an unarmed Asian-blooded man whose only crime was to tell them to stop hassling a waitress in a bar. Was Chai Vang, the Hmong man who shot and killed 6 white people in the Minnesota woods for shouting slurs at him, allowed to walk away from it? No. He's in prison. Imagine an Asian-American judge turning him loose saying, "This is not the kind of man you send to prison." Would you consider that overt racism? I would. Would that decision stand? No, it would not and we all know it.

It pisses me off that race relations in this country is just black and white. Like no one else matters. As though whites are this terribly downtrodden minority. It makes me sick.